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Feature Creep: Built-in Microwave
Sometimes you just want to listen to some people get off topic as quickly as possible.
Episodes
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Just Take it Back from the Fuckers
Ned and Meg revisit Halloweeny themes in this episode. Secondarily, we are trying to figure out a new word to describe the simultaneous experience of emotional…
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My Stones!
Ned and Meg chat about Ned’s recent visit to the Marine Exchange of Southern California, a sprawling logistical water puzzle with giant boats that people…
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Toe Boats
Ned and Meg brought Damon in on the pod this time to discuss potential podcast titles before we get around to discussing Toeboats. Or, Toe Boats. Either way…
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Fish or Chick; the Vagaries of Dinnertime Decisionmaking
Ned and Meg discuss the phenomenon of decision fatigue as it relates to dinnertime. It's a cruel trick that at the end of a day of decisions, one still must…
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Little Gems for the People #8: Immanentize
Meg and Ned talk about how a lot of solutions are really just another problem, and our rabbit hole discussion of immanentizing the eschaton leads to a book…
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It's Mircotonal Music; the Brilliance of Angine de Poitrine
Ned sent Meg a KEXP video of a band named Angine de Poitrine and it consumed her entire day from the moment she woke up and into the next day, the day we…
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The Hum
Ned and Meg kick off their convo with a discussion of how to piss off men, technofeudalism, sports!!, and the Hum. We talk about the AOMC faltering, how much…
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Microgenres
Ned and Meg talk about microgenres in art. We also discuss a new turn of phrase, aesthetic erosion, which Meg learned today. We follow the history of…
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Vaporwave
Ned introduces Meg to the mini-genre of music and visual art called Vaporwave. If you grew up in the 1980s and 90s, you will immediately get the aesthetic…
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Hedonism
Ned and Meg discuss the long history of the concept of hedonism and how it gets sort of a bad rap. For four thousand years, give or take, people have been…
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Feverish Spinoff
Ned and Meg generally don't find reaction videos entertaining, until the personal strife of the reactors becomes apparent, in which case Meg thinks they're…
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Woke Butter
In today's episode, two pseudoscientists tell you how to live, and it all starts with woke butter and homeschooling. We talk about alternatives to dairy milk…
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Cults #2, No Cause for Alarm but we are Starting a Cult
Have you heard the Good News? Ned and Meg are starting a cult! Which cult will it be? That is still up for debate. We haven't really settled into anything yet…
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Cults #1
Meg and Ned decide to design a cult, but first we need some background. You would think years of Catholic 'education' would prepare Meg for this but whatever…
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Poison!
Poison! Poi-poi-poison! In a serendipitous moment of uncertainty, a fascinating email arrived in Meg's inbox and graced us all with the topic of today's…
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Fifteen Fucks and the Simming Problem
Ned and Meg chat about the Simming Problem, which is a concept from Iain Banks, a sci-fi writer, about the ethics of simulating entities or individuals or…
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Dieter Rams Points and Shrugs
Ned and Meg admire the magnificent Dieter Rams, who pointed and shrugged his way into our hearts, and we discuss his legendary ten principles of good design.
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The Grift that Keeps on Giving
Ned and Meg celebrate the near-anniversary of the Titan Sub Failure with a couple updates about the ongoing situation, lawsuits, obituaries, and so on. We also…
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Little Gems for the People #5: Analogies or Something
Ned and Meg recorded this so long ago that they don't even remember what it's about! It's like looking for a pine needle in a haystack, or some other bad…
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Shame Solutions, or Something
Meg and Ned talk about an awful book in the category of self-help writing that Meg had to read for school. It's about how our culture in America shames women…
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Little Gems for the People #7, Boomerphone
Ned and Meg explore examples of familial triangulation involving people who grew up before answering machines and modern smartphone technologies. This leads to…
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Little Gems for the People #6, Net Neutrality
Meg forces Ned to explain Net Neutrality on the spot, and then after that we talk about how US courts just overturned it, which is bad. In addition to the bad…
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Cosmic Latte, Don't Call it Beige
Ned and Meg talk about #fff8e7, the hexadecimal index of the color Cosmic Latte. And what is a cosmic latte? Why, it's the average color of all the light…
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Petards Be Hoistin'; From Scratch, Hard Lines and Gray Areas
Ned and Meg get off topic super quick because we were in the same room again. Joy! Hello to everyone we met in San Diego, you're all wonderful! Ned and Meg…
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Follow This Simple Sophistry for a Perfect Life, Listen to the End to Find Out the Secret
Ned and Meg talk about the latest hype at the intersection of the art world and block chain, NFTs. We dish on digital assets, block chain public ledgers, the…
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Not Every Conversation Needs to be a Podcast, Shut Up Yes it Does
Ned and Meg have some thoughts about content, content creation, and what the fuck is going on. Also this one is as the name says, so we sorta forget what…
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Get Your Drugs and Candy Here
Ned and Meg give their thoughts about Derry Girls, a cute and adorable television show set in Ireland in the 1990s with The Troubles and a Catholic school…
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Derry Girls Watch Party
Ned and Meg give their thoughts about Derry Girls, a cute and adorable television show set in Ireland in the 1990s with The Troubles and a Catholic school…
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Blue Light Special
Ned and Meg have some thoughts about content, content creation, and what the fuck is going on. Also this one is as the name says, so we sorta forget what…
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To Read or Not To Read
Sierra and Ned spend a lovely afternoon debating the merits of recording an audioboook. Join in and find out all about Ned's angst for the US medical system…
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The First Cliche
Ned and Meg discuss cliches and how they get that way. Discussing certain art, artists, and concepts as cliche is, in all likelihood, itself cliche. We do it…
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Gina Rinehart, Hideous Racist, Spectacular Backfire!
Ned and Meg extend the far-reaching tentacles of this story, as is our solemn artistic duty. This is the Streisand Effect intersecting with the art world. This…
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Ice Pirates
Ned and Meg rehash and review the totally queer-coded movie “Ice Pirates” from 1984. This movie is a mashup of every 1980s cinematic trope in one place and we…
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Little Gems for the People #4, Busy Beavers
Ned and Meg chat beavers. These are some of the most impressive critters around. They are environmental engineers and have an incredible impact on their…
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The One that’s Full of Lies
Ned and Meg talk about intentionally false statements, which is what the OED defines as a lie. We discuss all sorts of lies, and how they fit into some of our…
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A Miasma of Missing Mission Must-Haves
Ned and Meg revisit OceanGate-Gate, the accident-but-not-really-an-accident involving a fraudy, totally unprepared submersible in the Atlantic Ocean almost a…
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Ubiquitoys
Ned and Meg chat with Sarah, our featured guest this week, about favorite toys from yesteryear. There’s a lot of unrequited love for toys and games in this…
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Let’s All Agree You'll Be Disappointed or a Disappointment
Ned and Meg talk about Disappointment. Ned has some new chairs, Meg has a sinus infection and someone stole her tarp, it’s Valentine's Day, they make indoor…
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Angry Fixtures
Ned and mostly Meg launch into a tirade about the sorry state of modern lighting design. Like everything else in our declining empire, lighting has taken a…
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Little Gems for the People #3, Colors of the Day
Ned and Meg discuss the process for developing Colors of the Day, which we feature at the end of (almost) every episode. You can check out colors of the day…
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Little Gems for the People #2 The Cure for Insomnia
Ned and Meg talk about a short topic for a short podcast. Welcome to LIttle Gems for the People. Today’s topic is the movie The Cure for Insomnia. We talk…
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Balloonacy
Ned and Meg discuss the sordid history of hot air ballooning. When did it start and will it ever end? Seriously, hot air ballooning is stupid-dangerous, so if…
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The Legend of Zelda, Greatest Game Ever?
Ned and Meg chat about the Legend of Zelda, which we think is basically the greatest game ever made, and we spend around 80 minutes telling you why! This game…
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Bookgate, a Scandalous Book about Gates
Ned and Meg discuss a very esoteric idea for a book, which is the sort of thing you do when you have many ISBN numbers awaiting assignment. The book would be a…
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The Deep End
Ned and Meg chat about The Sims while Ned’s in Germany, which ties into a conversation about some dogs, some rabbits, the nature of sentience and concepts of…
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Which Troops to Support in the War on Xmas, 2023 Edition
Ned and Meg revisit their annual tradition of asking no one in particular whose troops we should support in the war on xmas. This year we discuss how Target is…
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Billy Wobble Pitchfork and His Lesser Known Short Form Sketch Comedy
Ned and Meg talk about William Shakespeare. Was he a lone wolf? Or was he an old timey Banksy, an art genius at the helm of an art cabal? Maybe he was both or…
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Themed Nervous Breakdowns
Ned and Meg discuss the various thematic elements of our multitudes of nervous breakdowns, be they big or small, exceptional or pedestrian. Themes include…
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Little Gems for the People #1, Atlantic Current and Global Temperature Hockey Stick
Ned and Meg introduce their new series of short episodes that serve as backfiller for Mondays where we didn’t get something posted. We think you might not even…
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Where R all teh Editors?
Ned and Meg discuss the disappearance of the editing profession. Editors are losing their toehold in the workplace! We discuss what we think led to the loss of…
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Lacks at Last
Ned and Meg discuss the history of, and legal settlement between, Henrietta Lacks’s descendants, her cells, and Thermo Fischer Scientific. This is a…
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Nanners, Nanners, Self-Congrats
Ned and Meg solve a problem, which is that Meg couldn’t get some candy so Ned had to mail it 2000 miles and it finally arrived so you get to hear all about it!…
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Long Story Short, The Episode
Ned and Meg celebrate the return of Lauren as our guest-host-comrade. We chat like old times about whether you’re supposed to swim on an empty or a full…
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Hippo Uh-Oh
Ned and Meg discuss the fate of Pablo Escobar’s wayward Colombian hippopotamuses. Yeah that’s right, Colombian Hippos. What else is there to say? Thanks for…
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Asterbang*!
Ned and Meg discuss the invention of the Asterbang, not to be confused with the Interrobang, which we have discussed at length in other episodes. Today we want…
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Oceangate Gate
Ned and Meg and Damon discuss the Oceangate submersible scandal, which we obviously dubbed OceanGategate, but first we discuss the sinking of a fishing vessel…
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The Mechanical Turk
Ned tells Meg about the once-fabulous, then not fabulous, and now once-again-fabulous Mechanical Turk, a fraudy machine from the late 1700s that beat famous…
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Paper Sizes
Ned and Meg chat around ISO 216, the paper standard that dictates sizes and scaling for papers not used in the United States. Here we use letter size and other…
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Lagniappes
Ned and Meg wander through the landscape of lagniappes, describing what we see as we go. In this episode we discuss the etymology of the word “lagniappe” and…
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Vaguely Debate the Nature of the Zombie Genre
Wherein Ned and Meg vaguely debate the nature of the zombie genre. Spoilers on the HBO show The Last of Us. Thanks for listening, wash your hands, don’t be a…